So far no one at a fabric store has asked what I’m quilting so I haven’t had the chance to whip out my phone & be like well u see. this.
Okay SO this is a longer answer than you asked for but let me regale u with
The Story Of Hubris Quilting
It is two months ago
I am so fucking cursed and trying desperately to find crafts I can actually do while lying in bed with no brain and a -4 penalty to my dex mod
I am also just sort of rewatching Mob Psycho 100 on loop bc I am in love with it and it gives me Content without needing to expend much brain power
Important background information on me, Scribe: When I love a piece of media very much I feel a deep and abiding need to create some sort of wearable talisman about it.
Anyway, I am rewatching Season One for like the third time when I notice this shot in the opening:
Haha, I think, that looks kind of like appliqué!
My brain, which is actively dying for want of a craft project, goes Oh?? Appliqué you say???
Oh man, I think, I bet I could sew that! And maybe some, like, objects from especially significant scenes! I could do it as the design on the back of a quilted vest; that would make a fun talisman!
(Had I stopped here it would have been a large but reasonable project. However, I am filled with hubris even when I also have the physical stamina of a cup of jello and the brain power of a particularly dim slug)
It’s a shame there’s probably no way I can quilt his aura, I think.
(This is a stupid thing to think because going “this is probably impossible” about a craft project is a surefire way to summon The Hubris)
No really, I think. There’s no way I can quilt Mob’s aura.
[Various McElroy voices] Unless …
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I stare at psychic aura screencaps for many days.
I come to several emotional character revelations. I also come to the conclusion that what I want to do is, technically, possible.
To start, I’ll use English Paper Piecing to sew together a bunch of tiny triangles into eight-part rosettes to recreate the ‘spinning disc’ effect of the aura
Then once I have enough of those, I’ll remove the basting and the paper pieces, press them, and re-baste them to clamshells (making sure they’re all in exactly the same orientation)
And THEN I’ll appliqué all those clamshells together into rows to make a solid piece of fabric
(These are just laid out, not sewn down yet)
And then I’ll tilt that fabric at like a 20-30 degree angle and finally I will have successfully quilted Kageyama Shigeo’s psychic aura!
And that will be the background of my vest :)
After that, I’m going to teach myself needle-turn applique to decorate it with significant objects from every scene that’s made me cry! (there are … many of them)
Anyway. This is the plan I came up with 864 tiny triangles ago and it’s going great so far!
Update! I have sewn 1,200 tiny triangles into 150 rosettes, approximately half the total amount I need!! We are Making Progress!!
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Update: 2,400 tiny triangles babyyyyyy!!
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Now it is time to sew all the rosettes together and then do One Million Appliqué!
Funniest part of this is that this is that the entire sequence of events this implies would still be a completely plausible Wile E Coyote Gag.
Wile E is chasing Roadrunner as usual when they encounter the wall of holes
Roadrunner zooms through the crowd and into a perfectly Roadrunner-shaped tunnel
Wile E tries to follow and immediately crashes into the wall
Looks around and sees a perfectly Coyote-shaped tunnel nearby, and climbs into it
Cut to a nightmarishly distorted, twisted Wile E emerging from the opposite cliff face. He takes several steps, bouncing and wobbling like a slinky, holds up a sign with letters that are also distorted into unreadable gibberish on it, and collapses into a tangle of furry spaghetti
Pan to Roadrunner casually standing nearby next to a still-perfectly-roadrunner-shaped tunnel exit, which is the only normal-shaped tunnel exit on the entire cliff face
Roadrunner sticks tongue out, beep-beeps, and vanishes in a trail of dust
Cut to Wile E Coyote, now unscathed but very annoyed, assembling an ACME Tunnel Boring Machine
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